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This week's top 10: The CDC releases new guidelines, Momofuku group closes two locations, the new socially distant restaurant

Even more bars and restaurants across the country announce permanent closures, Hillstone changes its anti-face mask policy and more trending news from the past week.

Holly Petre, Assistant Digital Editor

May 22, 2020

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This week, restaurants looked to what a post-coronavirus world will be. Some restaurants decided to shutter permanently fearing financial strain while others used interesting strategies to reopen and social distance, all while following new CDC guidelines.

The CDC released its updated guidelines for reopening restaurant dining rooms and bars this week. They include intensified cleaning and heightened employee protocols around any sick workers.

Some restaurants have begun to reopen with inventive and interesting social distancing plans. From blow up dolls to pandas to pods to mannequins, restaurants are making the 6ft dining experience an entertaining one.

On the other side, some restaurants have begun to add COVID-19 surcharges onto customer bills to account for the supply chain and labor cost of operating delivery-only as a way to financially survive. One restaurant in Michigan cited the rising costs in beef, mainly due to the beef shortage and the closure of meat plants.

Others, however, are not trying to survive anymore. There was another wave of restaurants announcing permanent closure plans this week, the biggest among them were two of David Chang's Momofuku Group restaurants in Washington D.C. and NYC. 

See what stories were trending this week on Restaurant Hospitality.

About the Author

Holly Petre

Assistant Digital Editor

Holly Petre is a digital editor for Nation’s Restaurant News as well as the host of NRN’s podcast, Extra Serving, and producer for Informa Restaurant and Food Group’s other three podcasts, One On One by Food Management, Off the Shelf with SN and In the Kitchen with Bret Thorn. Holly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture, fibers and Material Studies and Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native New Yorker, Holly enjoys her place on staff as the resident pop-culture expert and millennial with a sassy attitude and great sense of style.

Holly Petre’s work on Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality often covers marketing and trends, either aimed-at or examined-through the millennial mindset. Holly is responsible for introducing TikTok and Twitch to NRN and RH readers as well as explaining terms like “Karen” to staff and readers alike. She also spends her time on staff trying not to make every headline a pun.

Holly Petre hasn’t spoken at any events or on panels, but she is readily available with a killer shoe wardrobe and several witty quips.

 

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